Improvement in grain-drills



'1W.WEUSTHOFF & T. e. TROUP.

Improvement in Grain Drills'.

Patented March 19, 1872 m mlm 7 U ITE STATES PATENT OEErc WILLIAMwEUsTHo E AND TEMP EsT e. TEoUP, oE DAYTON, OHIO, AS-

SIGNORS T0 FARMERS FRIEND MANUEAoTUEINe COMPANY, OF sAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT m GRAIN-DRILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,707, dated March19, 1872.

Specification describing a certain Improvem ent in Grain-Drills,invented by WILLIAM WEUsTnoEF and TEMPEsT G. GROUP, of Day ton, in thecounty of Montgomery and State of Ohio. i

structing the clips by which the drag-bars are connected to thetransverse bar or bars of the frame in sections, which may readily bedis- .united without removal of any of the parts from the frame, so asto form an opening for the release of the journals of the drag-bar inshifting it from one beam to another.

Figure lrepresents, in perspective, two of our improved clips by which adrag-bar is connected with a transverse beam of the drill-frame. Fig. 2is a section of one.

The same letters of reference are employed in both figures in thedesignation of identical parts.

In the example illustrated in the annexed drawing the clips are composedeach of two parts, A and B, separately bolted to the beam in the mannershown. The part A is perma' nentl'y secured, and is provided with abearin g, a, for the reception of one of the journals on the forked endof the drag-bar 0, the other journal of which enters a similar bearin gin an adjacent clip. J nst above the open side of this bearing a agroove, a, is formed in the part A for the reception of a'tongue, b, onthe end of the part B, by which the open side of the bearing a iscovered for the purpose of re-\ 'taining the journal of the drag-barwhen inserted. The bolt or set-screw D, which se-' cures the part B ofthe clip, passes through an elongated slot, 1), therein, so that byslight- 1y unscrewing this set-screw the part B may be drawn back untilthe open side of the bearing a is uncovered. In this position of theparts the journals of the drag-bars can be lifted out.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

Theiholder A and slotted part B with setscrew 1), in combination withthe drag-bar C, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM VVEUSTHOFF. TEMPEST' G. TROUP.

Witnesses:

E. S. YOUNG, GEO. M. YOUNG.

